Skeltered vs Sheltered - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between skeltered and sheltered

is that skeltered is (skelter) while sheltered is (shelter).

protected, as from wind or weather.

(head)

(skelter)

(en verb)

To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.

* Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago

It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village

(en adjective)

Protected, as from wind or weather.

:The boat was much safer, during the storm, in the sheltered cove.

(Of a person) who grew up being overprotected by parents or other guardians; often implies a lack of social skills, worldly experience, etc.

(head)

(shelter)